we had none but those who were perfect in rectitude itfelf to deal with.

The contract bond which Mr. Ganfel's attorney drew from your figned copy, I afterwards delivered up to your attorney, Mr. Stubbs, of parlia➡ ment-street, in confideration of a fum of money which he brought me from you, together with an additional annuity of one hundred pounds a year, in trust, to Nicholas Linwood, Efq. Upon the receipt of this, I figned a general release; in which was included, the money remaining upon the diamonds you fo bounteously bestowed on your fa

vourites.

As I prefume your prefent ftudies occupy your mind too much to attend to fuch trivial matters, for, like Obadiah, the affairs of ftate hang heavy upon your neck and fhoulders, and you may have forgot the purport of it, I will present you with a copy of the ever-memorable contract, which General Ganfel fent me upon the death of his father. I will give it you verbatim. But fhould any of your friends (if you have any) be defirous to prove the authenticity of it, they fhall be fatisfied, as your hand is as well known as your face.

Copy

Copy of the Contract, brought ready figned by Mr.

Calcraft.

"KNOW all men by these presents, that I John Calcraft, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, "in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, am held "and firmly bound unto Georgiane Bellamy, of "Frith-ftreet, Soho, Spinfter, in the fum of fifty "thousand pounds, of lawful money of Great-Bri"tain, to be paid to the faid Georgiane Bellamy, "her certain attorney, executor, administrator, or "affigns, firmly by these presents, fealed with my "feal, dated this 22d day of January, 1752.

"The condition of this obligation is fuch, "that whereas the above-bounden John Calcraft, "and the above-named Georgiane Bellamy, have "mutually agreed to marry with each other; "and therefore the above bound John Calcraft, "fhall and do marry the faid George Bellamy, ac"cording to the rites and ceremonies of the "Church of England; and shall not intermarry "with any other perfon whatsoever, fave the "faid Georgiane Bellamy, or during the natural "life of the faid Georgiane Bellamy; then this

The Writer was always called Georgiane, till of late years, when it being necessary to refer to the register, it was found to be 'છું. written George Anne.

"obligation

"obligation to be void, or else remain in full

"force."

(Signed)

JOHN CALCRAFT.

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Now, my worthy Sir, this tranfaction will, I hope, convince the world, though it may not your partial felf, that from the moment you figned this contract, being at the fame time married, and therefore unable to fulfil it, you forfeited all title to the smallest degree of honesty. And I might truly pronounce you to be

"Daring in vice, which does to profit tend,

"Falfe to thy God, thy mistress, and thy friend."

You will further please to obferve, that the date to this fallacious contract was antecedent to my quarrel with Metham; that fatal paffion, which you availed yourself of, not happening till his birth-day, which was the thirtieth of January, at which time you was honoured with being his humble friend. And even at this time, you intended to plant a dagger in his heart, as you was well convinced you must do, by fupplanting him in my favour. For his fondness for me was well known to be carried to every excefs of extravagance. And even the fault, which was the cause of our feparation, evinced his madness; as no man, particularly

particularly one fo remarkably well bred, could have made use of fuch rude expreffions before a felect company of perfons of diftinction, unless he had been at the time torn on the rack of jealousy. But why do I talk to you of a breach of friendfhip, who efteen the word as merely a bugbear, and boldly fet that, as well as every other virtue, at defiance!

I will now, if you please, take a retrospect of the innumerable favours you have graciously beftowed upon me. And this I can the more easily do, as they are engraven on the tablets of my heart, from whence they never can be eradicated.

After the mockery at Donnalan Park was over, you declined my worthy friend's folicitations to fpend a few days with him. Some remains of compunction, for the deception you had just been guilty of, was, I believe to this hour, partly the cause of your declining the invitation. You al ́ledged, that business of the greatest conféquence required your being in town. But the moment Mrs. Smith and myfelf were feated in the chaife, you rode up to it in feeming tranfport, and informed me, that my mother was waiting for us at Ingatestone.

I afterwards

I afterwards learnt, that your impofition had extended to her alfo; and that you had prevailed upon her to accompany you to that place, with the affurance that Mr. Ganfel had been witness to our being united för life. Relying upon the rectitude of this deceived, but worthy man, fhe did not entertain a doubt of our being married. The good woman confequently made ufe of all the power she had over me, to induce me to forget Metham, and learn the road to tranquillity, which I had fo long been a stranger to.

Nor was you under any apprehenfion's of a difcovery taking place through Mrs. Smith. As the was totally in the dark with regard to the tranfaction, fhe could only acquaint my mother that the old gentleman feemed happy at my being eligibly settled for life. As for myself, I was fo perfectly miferable, that I evaded coming to an ́explanation; especially as the reproaches bestowed by my mother upon Metham, cut me to the foul. The two old ladies were as gay as if their years had been renovated, and feemed as happy as if Hymen had really been present in his faffron robe, and with his lighted torch, to fanctify my wretchednefs.

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